Protector for closet-seats



T. L. I; CARLSON.

PROTECTOR FOR CLOSET SEATS.

APPL'ICATION FILED NOV. 14. 1919.

1,3 3,0 5, Patented Dec. 21,1920.

PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS L. I. CARLSON, OF BOTTINEAU, NORTH DAKOTA.

PROTECTOR FOR CLOSET-SEATS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 21, 1920.

Application filed November 14, 1919. Serial No. 337,930.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS L. I. CARL- soN, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Bottineau, in the county of B'ottineau and State ofNorth Dakota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inProtectors for Closet seats, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to guard devices adapted to be disposed overtoilet seats for protecting the occupant of the same, and has for one ofits objects to improve the-construction and increase the efficiency ofdevices of this character.

Another object of the invention is to provied a device of thischaracter, comprising a sheet of protecting material having a pluralityof openings arranged in pairs at spaced intervals with the materialbetween the openings separated from the body of the sheet by severingpunctures onl so that the separable portions may be rea ily detached foruse as toilet paper.

lVith these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certainnovel features of construction as hereinafter shown and described andthen specifically pointed out in the claims, and in the drawingsillustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention- Figure 1 is aperspective view of a conventional water closet with the improvementapplied.

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional detail of a portion of the web windingdrum and casing.

Fig. 4 is a plan view, on a reduced scale, of a portion of the sheetprotecting material.

Fig. 5 is a sectional detail of one end portion of the web holding drum.

The improved device may be applied without material structural change toclosets of various forms and sizes and to any desired part of the same,but will generally be attached to the swinging seat indicated as a wholeat 10 and hingedly coupled in the usual manner to the bowl 11.

The improved device comprises a sheet of protecting material indicatedat 12 of any required length and arranged to be wound from one drum toanother the lat- The casin s 13 and 14 are provided re spectively withslits 18 and 19 forthe passage of the sheet 12 of the protecting materiaThe casing 13 is provided with a hinged cover 20 while the casing 14 isprovided with a similar hinged cover 21.

The casings are represented at 1314 and the drums at 15-16, the drum 16being the holding drum and the drum 15 the winding drum. Each casing isprovided at one end with an inwardly projecting stud, one of which isshown at 27 in Fig. 3, and each drum is provided with an end socket torespectively engage the studs and freely rotative thereon.

The drum 15 is provided with a socket 28 in the other end to receive aspring controlled pin 29, the latter having a terminal knob externallyof the casing 13 and a spring 31 to hold the drum from accidentaldisplacement.

By this arrangement a loaded holding drum 16 may be readily inserted andthe empty drum removed from the casing 13.

The drum 15 is likewise provided with a socket 32 to receive a stud 33,the latter having lateral fins 34 engaging in lateral seats leading fromthe socket 32.

A spring 35 holds the drum 15 yieldablv in position.

The stud 33 is extended into a handle 17 as shown. By this means thedrum 15 may be rotated to wind the sheet 12 thereon, as required, andremoved from or deposited in the casing 13, as required.

The drum 15 is provided with studs 36 with which apertures in the sheet12 are on gaged to couple the sheet to the drum prior to the windingaction.

The casings are attached to the seat 10 at opposite sides by brackets orhangers 22 and 23 with the slits 19-20 slightly below the upper line ofthe seat 10 as shown more clearly in Fig. 2, so that the sheet 12 willbe drawn tightly over the seat, when wound from one drum to the other.

The sheet of material will be initially wound wholly upon one drum andthe free end drawn through the slits 18 and 19 and over the seat 10, andattached to the studs 34 of the other drum, or the one having the crankassociated therewith.

sli htly less in diameter than the same.

he Web portions 24: are united to the body of the sheet by severingpunctures only, indicated at 25, while each web is further divided intoseparable portions by intermediate severing punctures 26, so

that the webs can be readily detached for use as toilet paper, after thesheet has been disposed over the seat by actuating the crank 17 Eachperson will be able to dispose an unused portion of the sheet over theseat, by simply rotating the crank 17, thereby winding the used portionsof the sheet on the drum 15 and unwinding the unused portions from thedrum 16 and dis-posing the perforated portions consecutively over theseat.

The sheets 12 may be of any desired length and containing any requiredseries of the openings 23 and webs 24 and may be of any suitablematerial, but will generally be of paper of the usual quality of textureemployed for toilet paper and may be medicated or rendered diseaseresisting.

\Vhat is claimed is.

1. The within described blank comprising a sheet of seat protectingmaterial having openings arranged in pairs at spaced intervals, theportions of the material between each palr of openings connected to theibody of the sheet by severing punctures on y.

2. A seat protector comprising a sheet of material having openings inspaced relation and conforming in combined outline with the opening inthe closet seat, the material between the openings being connected tothe body of the sheet by severing punctures only. I

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature.

THOMAS L. I. CARLSON.

